Hello! French and Spanish teacher in the UK (GCSE, IGCSE, A-Level, Pre-U). I produce worksheets, quick activities and sentence builder sheets. I have recently started to upload my work to TES, so if you like my resources, I'd be so grateful if you could leave a quick review. Thanks for visiting and I hope my stuff will help you in your lesson planning!
Hello! French and Spanish teacher in the UK (GCSE, IGCSE, A-Level, Pre-U). I produce worksheets, quick activities and sentence builder sheets. I have recently started to upload my work to TES, so if you like my resources, I'd be so grateful if you could leave a quick review. Thanks for visiting and I hope my stuff will help you in your lesson planning!
I just made these 6 sentence builders to give to my students to revise from for a writing test. They cover the following points:
Introducing yourself, giving age, birthday, where you’re from and where you live
Describing physique, hair and eyes - of yourself or of someone else
Describing personality - of yourself or of someone else
Describing your family and giving their names, ages and birthdays
Saying what pets you have (and colours) and any pets you used to have / would like to have
However, you can also use them for teaching the content in the first place - click this link to see ideas on how you can use sentence builders https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/teaching-ideas-for-using-sentence-builders-12281180
A challenging microlistening task based on the song fête de trop by Eddy de Pretto. This can be used AFTER students have had plenty of practice differentiating between the different vowel sounds in French, including the nasal sounds. A good way to practise (and also assess) the students’ understanding of these sounds. Answers included.
A pack of various resources to practise the endings of present tense regular verbs, enough for several lessons / homeworks, including:
chez moi, je… worksheet to practise saying what you do at home, multi-choice exercise, listening gap-fill & conjugatino practice
a long gap-fill conjugation exercise with sentences on the topic of school
a revision booklet of short exercises to practise the endings of regular verbs
a writing practice sheet with en-fr translations of regular verbs on the topics of hobbies and school
a worksheet to practise -ir and -re verbs only
A selection of activities for teaching the perfect tense. Includes:
Oral drills on a powerpoint
A ‘revision of the perfect tense’ sheet with matching activities, missing letters and sentence jumble translations
A summary sheet for retrieval practice with tables for pupils to fill in
A blank conjugation table to fill out
A handout with 3 lists for reference for revision, including just a few of the most important verbs from each group
A few activities for practising the perfect tense of verbs that take être. Includes:
An introductory sheet for some inductive grammar.
A quiz quiz trade activity for oral translation.
A short activity that can be used as a plenary or a retrieval starter.
Here is my ‘lesson builder’ that I wrote about on this blog post and am sharing here after a few requests - the blog explains how it can be used. https://mflclassroommagic.com/2020/05/22/make-your-own-lesson-builder-cut-down-planning-time/
A quick oral translation activity for students to do in pairs to practise conjugation verbs in the perfect tense in French - very similar sentences are used firstly from L2 to L1, then the other way round.
A variety of activities to introduce the perfect tense of regular -er verbs - a powerpoint for an inductive grammar discussion with students, an aural sentence puzzle, a text search.
A short worksheet with a reading and listening exercise to practise distinguishing between the present and perfect - good to do once students have just learned the perfect tense, to go back to the present and consolidate the differences between them
A worksheet with a short conjugation retrieval task, listening gap-fill, unscramble the sentences exercise, and a test you can set for homework. All answers included.
Includes the following:
A variety of lesson activities for 1-3 lessons to learn to describe the environmental problems in the world and the local area - a parallel text with suggestions on how to use it, a vocab hunt, delayed dictation, unscramble the sentences exercise, broken sentences to match up, another parallel text followed by a gap-fill, scaffolded translations from English into French. All answers included.
A short listening, matching activity & reading comprehension exercise to consolidate the future tense through listening & reading alongside environment vocab.
A variety of lesson activities to learn to say what you do / what you can do to protect the environment / ecology - including matching activity to introduce the vocab, vocab hunt, listening gap-fill with follow-up activity and guided writing task (complete the sentences)
A variety of lesson activities on the topic of ecology (ce que je fais pour aider l’environnement) / environment and practising using negatives - ne pas, ne jamais and ne que. Exercises include a grammar recap, match-up of sentences, narrow reading with vocab hunt and comprehension, listening comprehension, quiz quiz trade and sentence unjumbling. Table of all vocab used in lesson is included for if you want to upload it to your own Quizlet / spreadsheet. Enough activities for 1-3 lessons depending on ability of group.
A (basic) quiz on French culture to complete with students over zoom / equivalent. Instructions in the powerpoint - I ‘share my screen’ with the students and open the powerpoint to go through each slide with students who complete the answers by typing them on their phones in an email to me.
A listening and reading comprehension in French to give students a very basic introduction to the French revolution based on a French YouTube video. Aimed at Year 11 roughly (the video is hard but there is plenty of scaffolding in the exercises) Activities include vocab building gap-fill, gapped translation, listening gap-fill, true or false statements, and comprehension with reordering of information. Answers included.
A multi skill set of activities based on the video ‘A quoi ça sert, l’école ?’ from the YouTube channel 1 jour 1 question - vocab activities, gap-fill, reordering, translation and sentence unjumbling. Answers included. Suitable for Year 11 or a good Year 10 group in my opinion.
A sheet summarising key knowledge for GCSE level French writing in the past - key expressions in the past and most useful verbs in perfect and imperfect
2 resources: An exercise to practise or test the future tense in French. I made it as a test but it could easily be just a practice exercise. Then a translation exercise that combines present, near future and future for consolidation.
A variety of resources to introduce and practise the future tense AND practise combined with present tense and near future. Also includes resources on the topics of future plans, hobbies and the environment. Full details:
Various worksheets and activities to introduce and practise the future tense in French:
A few inductive grammar activities to introduce the future tense in French - a match-up exercise followed by inductive grammar exercise and links to a Quizlet and Quizizz games to practise the endings.
A variety of exercises to practise the future tense, including multiple-choice, gap-fill and translation. Mostly regular verbs but irregular verbs are introduced in the last activity. Answers included.
A short gap-fill on the future tense along with a speaking drill to practise conjugating orally.
A gap-fill worksheet to practise using the future tense and correct prepositions with countries in French.
A listening activity and verb conjugation activity to practise using the present and future tenses together - a good consolidation exercise for when pupils have studied both tenses separately
A selection of activities designed for practising the present, near future and future together. The idea is that pupils should have already studied the present tense and near future before, and have recently covered the future tense. This sheet will then allow for practise using the three together to reinforce the differences between them. Activities include completing tables, translation and listening. Vocab context is free time activities. Answers included.
A short listening, matching activity & reading comprehension exercise to consolidate the future tense through listening & reading alongside environment vocab.
A sentence builder with a worksheet and list of teaching ideas and activities (listening, speaking, translation) to teach the future tense. Answers for worksheet included. It is within the topic of les loisirs / le temps libre / free time / hobbies. There is enough material for several lessons on this.
A sentence builder on the topic of future studies to answer the question ‘qu’est-ce que tu vas étudier l’année prochaine?’ See this link for a free list of activities you can do with a sentence builder: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/teaching-ideas-for-using-sentence-builders-12281180
An exercise to practise or test the future tense in French. I made it as a test but it could easily be just a practice exercise. Then a translation exercise that combines present, near future and future for consolidation.
